Today was going to be a big day on the campaign trail. A loud day. President Barack Obama was embarking on his second day of a cross-state tour of Florida, the biggest of all swing states in an election contest...

Republican Mitt Romney won’t find much public support for his refusal to release more than the two years of tax returns that he already has disclosed and promised. Most Americans surveyed — 54 percent — say Romney should release additional tax...

Updated at 12:45 pm and 2 pm EDT Messing with Ann Romney, it appears, can get messy. First there was Hilary Rosen, the Democratic activist who said that Mitt Romney’s wife, a mother of five, had never worked a day...

There are TV ads, and there are videos. The TV ads are broadcast, or relayed by cable networks, to millions of Americans in battleground states, all aimed at influencing public opinion about the presidential election contest. The videos are rolled...

It took some time, during President Barack Obama’s campaign for election in 2008, for Michelle Obama to demonstrate her potential political power on the road. The Obama campaign hasn’t wasted any time this year. Still, even as the first lady...

Happy Mother’s Day, from Restore Our Future. The super-PAC supporting presumed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said it has a new television ad on the air today that includes comments Obama supporters Hilary Rosen and Bill Maher made last month...

It spoke plainly of the presidential election contest at hand that Mitt Romney would state on the stage of the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis both this: ”We need a president who will stand up for the rights...

The so-called “war on women” is becoming a war of women. Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist, fired first, last night accusing Republican Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, of “never working a day in her life.” Ann Romney, like about one third...

Women — and particularly mothers — have been getting special shout-outs from Mitt Romney and his wife Ann on the campaign trail lately, as the Republican frontrunner works to reach out to what could be a key swing demographic both in his party’s...